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10 Questions to Ask If You Are a Christian Blogger
1. Does your spouse know that you blog?
2. Does your family and friends and church know that you blog?
3. Do you blog at the expense of your duties at home?
4. Do you ignore your spouse or children to blog?
5. Why do you blog? What is your purpose? Your goals?
6. How much time do you spend every day blogging? Do you limit yourself? Have a schedule so that it does not take over your life?
7. Does your blog glorify God?
8. If you are a married woman or man, are you in contact with the opposite sex through blogging? If so, READ THIS.
9. Have you asked your spouse these accountability questions? (for example, "Honey, do you think I blog at the expense of our family?" OR "Does my blog glorify God?", etc.)
10. Are you answering these questions honestly or lying to yourself?
Comments
These are very good questions. The good thing is that you could substitute just about any other pursuit in there and ask similar questions.
Many, many things exist that can distract us from our God-given responsibilities. Blogging is merely one of them. I think that if a person has a tendency to allow blogging to distract them from their responsibilities, there's a good chance that it has more to do with their character than blogging per se.
Posted by: Kim in ON | March 24, 2007 09:42 AM
Kim wrote: I think that if a person has a tendency to allow blogging to distract them from their responsibilities, there's a good chance that it has more to do with their character than blogging per se.
Yes, and plug in anything, as you say, with the "blogging" and we all have to admit how easy it is to allow non-priorities to distract us from our responsibilities... even with the best of intentions. Even things that are serving the church can become distractions to our responsibilities.
As far as the issue of character, who among us can cast the first stone as we proclaim Christ and yet often fail to live up to what we proclaim to believe?
But by the grace of God alone we are clothed in the righteousness of Christ... yet though there is that once and for all positional sanctification in Christ, there is still that process of sanctification that must be worked out in our daily walk... and done so with Godly fear and trembling.
Therein lies the desperate need to be held Biblically accountable in life... not just blogging. And may we not surround ourselves with people who merely tickle our ears if we truly want to grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour.
Thank you for your comments Kim. They are often thought provoking and much appreciated.
Posted by: lisa | March 24, 2007 10:56 AM
All great questions.
I have found that I must limit myself--both in the amount of time I spend on my own blog and that of reading others' blogs. The biggest reason is that it can be a time waster, but for myself, if I read too much in short snippets--even if it's worthy reading--I can become so full of the ideas of others that my brain goes on overload. It's a fine line for me and one that I constantly have to guard against.
I find that reading blogs is no substitute for reading books.
Posted by: kim from hiraeth | March 24, 2007 03:04 PM
Kim from hiraeth,
Wise words girl. Thank you
Posted by: lisa | March 26, 2007 06:03 PM
Thank you for posting these questions. It's important to examine our motives for doing anything and I appreciate this opportunity to apply that to blogging.
Josh
"...the word of God is not bound."
--2 Timothy 2:9
Posted by: Josh | March 28, 2007 01:28 PM
May the Lord use them for His glory. THank you for taking the time to comment.
Posted by: lisa | March 28, 2007 07:21 PM